Research Article
Mindfulness and Pain Catastrophizing on Chronic Disease Patients
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.30-11-2020.2303767, author={Witrin Gamayanti and A D Amalia and Mursidin Mursidin}, title={Mindfulness and Pain Catastrophizing on Chronic Disease Patients}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social Science, Humanities, Education and Society Development, ICONS 2020, 30 November, Tegal, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICONS}, year={2021}, month={1}, keywords={mindfulness pain catastrophizing disease patients}, doi={10.4108/eai.30-11-2020.2303767} }- Witrin Gamayanti
A D Amalia
Mursidin Mursidin
Year: 2021
Mindfulness and Pain Catastrophizing on Chronic Disease Patients
ICONS
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.30-11-2020.2303767
Abstract
So many patients experience chronic physical illness, some of them feel the pain excessively, which called pain catastrophizing. Pain catastrophizing causes the patient to feel excessive pain. It makes the patient become stress or depression. One that can relieve the pain catastrophizing is mindfulness. The aim of this research is to examine the correlation between mindfulness with pain catastrophizing in patients with chronic diseases. The participants were 40 patients with chronic disease who got treatment at the hospital. The instrument used in this research used Philadelphia Mindfulness Scale (PHLMS) and the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS). The research used quantitative approach with analyses simple linear regression. The result shows that there is no significant relationship between mindfulness and pain catastrophizing.